I. Making meaning: Religiousness and meaning-making – Religion and transcendence – The study of religion in the West – Chinese popular religion. II. Religion and modernity: Secularization and secularity re-examined – Modernity and disenchantment – Religion’s place in a late-modern world – Characteristics of late-modern religiousness. III. Religion, China and the future: China’s religious heritage as moral capital –- Adopting and adapting China’s religious heritage – Civil society, religion and the common good – China and the future of religion.
Includes bibliographical references.

"楊慶堃著的"中國社會中的宗教"是研究中國宗教,社會和文化的經典作品,被譽為研究中國宗教的'聖經'.全書對中國宗教進行了非常全面的分析與闡述,詳細考察了中國社會中各種類型的信仰,以及國家政治,經濟和儒家學說的關係,描述了中國社會與宗教的整合狀況.本書試圖回答:在中國社會生活和組織中,宗教承擔了怎樣的功能,從而成為社會生活和組織發展與存在的基礎,而這些功能是以怎樣的結構形式來實現的"--OCLC note.

"本書分為四個部分：“文化社會學，”實踐文化社會學“，”實踐文化心理學“，”設和宗教中的變遷“，向讀者介紹正在發展中的文化社會學領域，文化社會學對當代中國社會的宗教進行學術性研究和貢獻。"--t.p.

1. Cultural sociology. Cultural sociology & religion –- Cultural psychology & religion -– Studying religion in China –- Multiple dilemmas.
2. Practicing cultural sociology. Religion & "habits of the heart" -– Mapping culture & religion: cultural codes, social imaginary, ideology –- New language for a modern China: evolution & national character -– Inculturation: Buddhism & Christianity in China.
3. Practicing cultural psychology. The language of culture & religion: symbol & myth -– The language of culture & religion: ritual -– The cultural self: China & the West –- Destiny & Fate in cultural context .
4. Transformations in society & religion. Cutlural evolution & religion –- The Axial Age: Confucius, Buddha, Socrates –- Humanism in China & the West.

1. China and religion. China’s common spiritual heritage –- Being religious in China: the Three Teachings -- China’s popular religion: surviving and thriving today -– Religions of the Book: finding a home in China.
2. China and the sociology of religion. Emile Durkheim: religion as a source of moral community –- C.K. Yang: China’s diffused religiousness -– Max Weber: Charism and the rationalization of religion -– Fei Xiaotong: Chinese images for Chinese society.
3. Religion in contemporary society. Religious ways of knowing –- Faith-based initiatives in China’s civil society –- Religion and violence–Religion and peacemaking -– The future of religion in a globalizing world.